Tying up Loose Ends on a Rope-based Robot Actuator One of the perennial challenges of building robots is minimizing the size and weight of drive systems while preserving power. One established way to do this, at least on robots …read more #hacking #projects
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Tying Up Loose Ends On A Rope-based Robot Actuator
One of the perennial challenges of building robots is minimizing the size and weight of drive systems while preserving power. One established way t...
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Putting the M in a UNI-T MSO [Kerry Wong] points out that the Uni-T MSO oscilloscopes have a logic analyzer built in — that’s the MSO, or Mixed Signal Oscilloscope, part — but you have to add …read more #hacking #projects
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Putting The M In A UNI-T MSO
[Kerry Wong] points out that the Uni-T MSO oscilloscopes have a logic analyzer built in — that’s the MSO, or Mixed Signal Oscilloscope,...
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Commodore Disk Drive Becomes General Purpose Computer The Commodore 1541 was built to do one job—to save and load data from 5.25″ diskettes. [Commodore History] decided to see whether the drive could be put to other purposes, …read more #hacking #projects
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Commodore Disk Drive Becomes General Purpose Computer
The Commodore 1541 was built to do one job—to save and load data from 5.25″ diskettes. [Commodore History] decided to see whether the drive...
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Hands On WIth The Raspberry Pi Compute Module Zero We are all familiar enough by now with the succession of boards that have come from Raspberry Pi in Cambridge over the years, and when a new one comes out …read more #hacking #projects
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Hands On WIth The Raspberry Pi Compute Module Zero
We are all familiar enough by now with the succession of boards that have come from Raspberry Pi in Cambridge over the years, and when a new one co...
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Popular Science Experiments in Sound During the 19th-Century Check one, two; check one, two; is this thing on? Over on The Public Domain Review [Lucas Thompson] takes us for a spin through sound, as it was in Britain …read more #hacking #projects
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Popular Science Experiments In Sound During The 19th-Century
Check one, two; check one, two; is this thing on? Over on The Public Domain Review [Lucas Thompson] takes us for a spin through sound, as it was in...
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2025: As The Hardware World Turns If you’re reading this, that means you’ve successfully made it through 2025! Allow us to be the first to congratulate you — that’s another twelve months of skills learned, projects …read more #hacking #projects
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2025: As The Hardware World Turns
If you’re reading this, that means you’ve successfully made it through 2025! Allow us to be the first to congratulate you — that&...
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GitHub Disables Rockchip’s Linux MPP Repository After DMCA Request Recently GitHub disabled the Rockchip Linux MPP repository, following a DMCA takedown request from the FFmpeg team. As of writing the affected repository remains unavailable. At the core of this …read more #hacking #projects
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GitHub Disables Rockchip’s Linux MPP Repository After DMCA Request
Recently GitHub disabled the Rockchip Linux MPP repository, following a DMCA takedown request from the FFmpeg team. As of writing the affected repo...
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An RPN Calculator and a Bonus VFD Clock From Casio Revival Have you heard the saying “the problem is the solution”? It seems to originate in the permaculture movement, but it can apply equally well to electronics. Take the problem [shiura] …read more #hacking #projects
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An RPN Calculator And A Bonus VFD Clock From Casio Revival
Have you heard the saying “the problem is the solution”? It seems to originate in the permaculture movement, but it can apply equally w...
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Reviving ReBoot With a Tape Deck Repair Do you remember ReBoot? If you were into early CGI, the name probably rings a bell, since when it premiered in 1994 it was the first fully computer-animated show on …read more #hacking #projects
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Reviving ReBoot With A Tape Deck Repair
Do you remember ReBoot? If you were into early CGI, the name probably rings a bell, since when it premiered in 1994 it was the first fully computer...
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Bicycle Tows 15,000 Pounds An old joke in physics is that of the “spherical cow”, poking fun at some of the assumptions physicists make when tackling a new problem. Making the problem simple like …read more #hacking #projects
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Bicycle Tows 15,000 Pounds
An old joke in physics is that of the “spherical cow”, poking fun at some of the assumptions physicists make when tackling a new proble...
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